But, the measure of his degradation was not yet full. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

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But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Place her in safety and comfort shelter her degradation with secrecy, and leave her.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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"A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer. - from Emma by Jane Austen

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Heathcliff bore his degradation pretty well at first, because Cathy taught him what she learnt, and worked or played with him in the fields. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Poverty was repugnant to her degradation took away two-thirds of her greatness. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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Sometimes he thought that I felt deeply the degradation of being obliged to answer a charge of murder, and he endeavoured to prove to me the futility of pride. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

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However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upo. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman